The Depling conferences respond to the growing need for a linguistic conference dedicated to approaches in syntax, semantics and the lexicon that are centered around dependency structures as a central linguistic notion.

Depling 2017, will be held in Pisa, September 18-20 2017. The conference is organized by the University of Pisa and the Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” of the Italian National Research Council (ILC-CNR).

Depling 2015, was held at the University of Uppsala from August 24 to 26 2015. The conference was organized by the Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University in collaboration with Akademikonferens.

In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words and semantic units, with a strong reference to the lexicon, have become the near-standard representation and annotation schemes in computational linguistics, parsing, generation, and other fields of natural language processing. The linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, and the need for the development of common notational and formal grounds is felt strongly by many people working in these domains.

In general terms, the conference investigates:

The use of dependency structures in the description of interesting syntactic and semantic phenomena, especially in a cross-linguistic perspective, including
linguistic phenomena for which classical simple phrase-structure based models have proven to be unsatisfactory.

The modelling of lexical phenomena and their role in the dependency view of linguistics.